Cronus - Saturn Picture

For the Greeks, it was known as Cronus, and to Romans: Saturn. It was the primordial Titan off the harvest, and the god of time and the calendar. The youngest of the Titans, as well as the most ambitious of them all and ruled as king for millennia, in the famous "Golden Age."

Gaia created a great sickle and gathered flint Cronus and his brothers to persuade them to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus was willing to do his will, so Gaia gave him the sickle and made him ambush. When Uranus met with Gaia, Cronus attacked him with the sickle and castrated him. Of blood splattered on Earth emerged the Giants and the Furies and Melias. The Uranus amputees genitals fell into the sea and came around a foam member from which emerged the beautiful Aphrodite.

After dispatching Uranus, Cronus re-lock in Tartarus to Hecatónquiros and Cyclopes, who feared. and he ascended to the throne with his sister Rhea as king of the gods. Cronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his own sons, as he had defeated his father. Thus, while was father of gods Demeter, Hera, Hades, Hestia, and Poseidon, were devoured as soon as they were born. But Rhea, he managed to save his sixth child, hiding and giving Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, saying he was the infant Zeus, who swallowed it without distrust.

When Zeus came to adulthood, Rhea gave her husband an emetic causing vomiting where I regurgitate to each of his children had already eaten on the same stone, but in reverse of how he had devoured. Zeus freed from Tartarus to Hecatónquiros and Cyclopes, who helped in the fight against the Titans in Titanomaquia undefeated result Zeus and his brothers, after this, most of the Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus for all eternity.

As a last reminder, CronusZeus cursed with evil itself, condemning it to be defeated and humiliated by one of his own children, who would be born with more power and strength than his father. In some versions of the myth, it is said that Zeus then forgive him and the rest of the Titans, liberating the Tatar and inviting them to live on Olympus, and alternative version Crono declined the offer, preferring to go live Champs Elysees.

Chrono first was a just and benevolent God, who cared about the good progress of the world, because not for nothing, the time when he ruled was so peaceful and perfect that no laws or rules were necessary because everyone did the right thing and there was no immorality.

After defeating, UranusCronus asks to Rhea his sister to be his wife, so being the new King and Queen of the gods. And Eventually Rhea got pregnant for the first time, an event that Cronus ​​him remember a talk he had with Uranus, in which his father revealed that, in the same way he had dethroned someday his child would defeat him.

I do not pay attention to the prophecy of his father, but Rhea was getting closer to giving birth, and the doubts and fears of Cronus growing similarly, until the day came, assisted by her sister Rhea, gave birth to a beautiful baby to Hestia named, and that night Rhea took the baby to Cronus, who was corrupted by fear and anger, and to see his newborn daughter, the subject with one hand and devour at once , hysterical, Rhea tried to save her, but was defeated by Cronus, who, he ordered to Rhea, that every time she gave birth to her son, he would be the first person to know.

Years passed and Rhea stay pregnant again, gave birth to a child (Hades), and as soon born, Cronus devoured, and thus step with 3 other babies, two girls and a boy, were devoured, but Rhea even expected a sixth child, and he managed to conceal the birth of her last child, and instead gave him a substitute her husband into thinking it was Zeus, and hid the baby away from her husband.

When Zeus became adult, fought and defeated his father locking him in the bottom of Tartarus along most of the Titans for many millennia, but subsequently, Zeus forgive them and invited to live in Olympus with the other gods.

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Cronus was the strongest and most powerful of all the children of Uranus and Gaea, so it was the most feared deity of antiquity, including their physical capabilities include a huge, colossal size, and as a primary weapon, the sickle magic that her mother made for him, which was enhanced with a special curse, as the damage caused by the sickle, could not be repaired by any magic, wounds or amputations throw by the blade of the scythe never healed, no matter if they were a human or a deity.

The main element of Crono were plants, vegetation and manipulation of earth and metals, and was worshiped as the god of agriculture, being capable of fertile any terrain, and at the same time, he was worshiped as the god of time that depended on the weather patterns, and also have almost total control of the cronoquinesis, time manipulation.